nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210427-101228-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210427s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210427-101228-0 doi eng 342 23 Selanec, Nika Bačić Author aut COVID-19 and the Rule of Law in Croatia: Majoritarian or Constitutional Democracy? Selanec, Nika Bačić Verfassungsblog 2021-04-27 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Croatian government has, much like any other, struggled to find an adequate response to the pandemic of COVID-19. “Dancing with the virus” for the last year entailed introducing, relaxing and re-introducing more or less stringent measures limiting constitutional rights and individual liberties based on epidemiologic developments and political priorities of the day, or season. The measures have ranged from almost a full lockdown in early 2020 when our numbers of infections were amongst the lowest ones in Europe, to a (far too) lenient regime during the tourist season in summer and fall 2020, when the budgetary, economic and political concerns prevailed over the need to address the serious worsening of our epidemiologic parameters. Even today, in the midst of the ‘third wave’, Croatia has quite a moderate set of measures. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 Kroatien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/covid-19-and-the-rule-of-law-in-croatia-majoritarian-or-constitutional-democracy/ raw object